A good nights sleep at the George in Orton, and a decent breakfast (poached eggs slightly overdone) and we were on our way. Out of the village and our first port of call was a stone circle, about a mile out of the village. It wasn’t exactly Stonehenge, but Tricia was pleased to have found it. We made our way across fields, and when we reached Sunbiggin Farm, we took a planned detour, up onto the limestone pavements (Ashby Scar).

We came back down, and rejoined the C2C. It was then across Ravenstonedale Moor, until we did another detour off the trail, going up Bents Hill instead of around it. As we came down we went slightly wrong around a disused railway line, but corrected ourselves, and then had lunch overlooking Smardal bridge.

Once over the bridge, we went up Smardale Fell. From there it was a relatively uneventful walk down until we arrived in Kirkby Stephen. Our B&B is lovely… we were greeted with tea and squash, and gluten free biscuits! In the evening we had a curry in a (recommended) local Indian.